“You still are one,” he said. “It hasn’t ended yet. You’re stuck here unless we figure all this out.”
“Okay. How do we initiate a return bounce?”
“There aren’t any actual, quote-unquote, time machines at work in the process. The bounce happens using a quantum computer that can sustain enough data processing of the genetic entanglement between the two of you. We don’t bounce a physical body through time. We bounce the electrical impulses which control our thoughts, memories, emotions, and reasoning.”
“So you and my great-great-grandson found a way to send just the stream of consciousness of a human being through time?”
“Precisely. You know what our consciousness really is, in its purest form? Information—not unlike a computer—in the form of energy. That’s all we are. The first law of th
